Source: New York Post
WASHINGTON — Top Justice Department lawyers balked at the Biden administration’s attempts to prosecute parents who protested mask mandates and critical race theory at school board meetings as potential domestic terrorists in the fall of 2021, ripping senior officials’ push for the criminal probes as “ridiculous” and highly “political,” according to emails released Monday. Attorneys in Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco’s office expressed concern about the demand for federal criminal investigations at the behest of the National School Boards Association (NSBA), and mocked the partisan goals it would accomplish, messages published by the DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group show. 4 President Joe Biden speaks following a briefing on Hurricane Helene in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept.